Marathi girl

Marathi is included among the languages which stand a part of the Eight Schedule of the Constitution of India, thus granting it the status of a "scheduled language".The contemporary grammatical rules described by Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad and endorsed by the Government of Maharashtra are supposed to take precedence in standard written Marathi.

In addition to all universities in Maharashtra, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, Indian languages, including Marathi, that belong to the Indo-Aryan language family are derived from early forms of Prakrit.

Traditions of Marathi Linguistics and the above-mentioned rules give special status to tatsamas, words adapted from Sanskrit.